That sounds weird. “End of Month 6”
I have 5 more months of this thing. What in the world race?!
As Sarah said in the past blog, it was a slow month. Rainy season in Africa, and not much to do. It was such a good month though. Seriously, Team MOR3 and A-Team Remix lived in community for the month, kinda like the Acts church. We didn’t have much to give up but we prayed, praised, lived together.
Bethsaida Portalin came up with a bag of prayer requests idea, so we wrote down our burdens, put em in a bag, and we each took each others burdens.
Sarah Gaddy came up with a share your heart time, where each person had a day to share what ever God’s speakin to em about. We usually have to give a lot of words of encouragements or preach or teach so these times were awesome and helpful. My day landed on a travel day so i didn’t get to share. Oh well, i was just gonna share on rest. I have gotten a weird, miscontrued(if that words even right) view of rest. Usually it’s like sit on your tail bone, close your eyes, and focus on our breathing.
God says kinda different. All He says is that your work is done, enter into your rest. Jesus, was resting His whole life, technically. He says all throughout scripture that He only does what the Father does, says what He says, and so forth. God’s got work for Him, but it’s God’s work not Jesus’. Same thing with us. That was kinda short, there’s definitely more to it. Dive into it. Hebrews 4 talks a little about it, it refers to the Israelites comin into the promise land. Just read the Gospels and listen to Jesus about it. He says God’s work is this, to believe in the one He has sent. John 6 maybe? Google it.
So here’s a list of how we “worked” while believing in the one He sent.
-read The Heavenly Man
-read Father Fiction
-read Irresistible Revolution
-read Crazy Love
-read Luke
-read the Christmas story
-started fires in a coal burner
-washed each other’s dishes
-swatted at flies
-swatted at who knows what the name of some of those bugs were
-scratched mosquito bites
-used Fanta bottles as candleholders
-boiled Fanta bottles to get the wax off because the bottles have to be returned
-slept on foam pads
-went to sleep with the sun
-woke up with the sun
-ate too many boiled eggs
-pumped water from a well probably 20 times
-carried the 5-10 gallons on my head each time
-hand-washed my laundry
-bucket showered 3 times, which is 3 times more than i showered last month
-sang songs with Malawian children
-chased Malawian children
-scared Malawian children
-jogged a couple times
-lead a church with a song in Chichewa ,”Palibe Ofana n’di Yesu”
-sang Christmas songs
-hung paper stockings
-wrote words on people’s stocking
-used a lighting bug as a christmas light on our christmas tree
-used a mosquito net to make a christmas tree
-watched the craziest storms i’ve seen in my life
-saw the best sunset i’ve seen in my life on our drive in
-hid under a tarp in the back of a flatbed(on account of rain) we weren’t being smuggled in, although it felt like that
-pushed a truck out of the mud
-ate Obama rolls and Bin Laden Rolls from the market
-ate 6 chickens and a goat for Christmas dinner
Now how much “work” does that sound like? haha it’s been an amazing month. It’s been like escaping with your loved one for a month, no cellphone, no computer, no nothing, just you and the one you love. Spending time with my God, the Lover, has grown so much it’s crazy.
Don’t get the wrong idea about Joy to the World Ministries, they do a ton of stuff for the surrounding community. You can check out their website, i think it’s jtwministries.org, i don’t know google it! haha google is somethin that no longer exsists for me because of internet connection, i actually am starting a list of things that pop into my head that i want to google, or IMDB, i’ll be posting that sometime soon, because i actually haven’t started it, i just had the idea of starting it.
In a few days, we are off to Swaziland, to work with El Shaddai, google it. actually, Blackle it, because it saves energy and battery life. blackle.com, it’s supported by google
